The use of museum collections as a path to learning for university students is fast becoming a new pedagogy for higher education. Despite a strong tradition of using lectures as a way of delivering the curriculum, the positive benefits of ‘active’ and ‘experiential learning’ are being recognised in universities at both a strategic level and in daily teaching practice.

Engaging the Senses: Object-Based Learning in Higher Education (edited by Helen J. Chatterjee and Leonie Hannan) brings together an international group of authors to share their approaches of 'object-based learning' as an emerging pedagogy within higher education. They explore contemporary principles and the practice of object-based learning in higher education, demonstrating the value of using collections in this context and considering the relationship between academic disciplines and object-based learning as a teaching strategy.

To celebrate the book's publication, UCL Museums and Collections and the Institute of Making presents an Engaging the Senses Study Day.

Are you an academic in a university interested in using collections to enrich your teaching or a museum already working with a higher education institution or would like to o find out how you could use your collection to support higher education teaching?

Then join us for a day of inspiring object-based learning and hear about the experiences of UCL Museums and academics who use the collections in their teaching.

Over the course of the day we will hear from an range of speakers including keynote speaker Professor Stan Altman, City Univeristy New York about the innovative Cultural Passport scheme and UCL's Public and Cultural Engagement's Head of Teaching and Research Professor Helen Chatterjee. Participants will take part in interactive object-based learning sessions using UCL's zoology, material, art, geology and Egyptian archaeology collections.

Come be inspired and help us provoke new ways of using collections in higher education teaching.

Tickets are £10 and booking is essential, this includes refreshments, lunch and a wine reception to launch Engaging the Senses: Object-Based Learning in Higher Education (Order your copy of the book before the end of
December to receive 50% discount by quoting: 50DHA15Nat).